§ 4-1. Legislative intent; title.

A. 

This local law is enacted pursuant to the authority granted in § 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law of the State of New York, wherein a municipality may adopt local laws relating to property, affairs and government of the Town, and shall be Local Law No. 3 of the year 1995, entitled "Salvage Yards," and shall provide for a clean, wholesome, attractive environment, which is of importance to the health and safety of the inhabitants of the Town, and the safeguarding of their material rights against unwarranted invasion, and, in addition, such an environment is deemed essential to the maintenance and continued development of the economy of the Town and the general welfare of its inhabitants.

B. 

It is further declared that the unrestrained accumulation of salvage yards is a hazard to such health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants, necessitating the regulation and restraint thereof. It is also noted that there presently exists four salvage yards within the Town. It is the intent of this local law to strike a balance between the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the Town's inhabitants and the legitimate and necessary business of salvage yards.